You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar but is a stab at the health of human society.
Deceive yourself by yielding to soft words that cause no pain; enslave yourself by yielding to harsh words that cause no pleasure.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
The truly intelligent person is one who can pretend to be a fool with ease in front of a fool who pretends to be intelligent.